An Insight on Sociology

Yesterday, I went to Shah Alam the lake garden to draw. It is quite unbelievable as I found that there was hardly anything interesting to draw.

What I saw was a lot of people, some are with families, some with their loved ones, and some are jogging around. Then I look at the infrastructure, in which I can only see the playground, some small hut, tall buildings from the distance, and lots and lots of trees.

Then I decided to sit on a spot with less people and started to draw a tree which caught my attention.
As I was drawing, people are passing by, but there was this one Chinese woman; she looks messy, carrying three large bags in which I was quite sure containing plastic bottles and tin cans.

She stopped by, watching as I draw. She did not talk, but then she made a signal that she wants to take a look at my sketch book. I gave her my sketch book. She flips through it, as her dirty hands leaves stains on the pages, and  as she came into my self-portrait, she smiled and pointed at me, saying in Chinese "This is you." I understand a little bit of Chinese, but I cant talk with her as I can't speak Chinese and she can't speak Bahasa.

She handed back the sketch book, and after a little bow she went away.

This incident disturbed my thoughts.
I realized that languages could be a major communication barrier, but that does not happens with arts.

An Introduction

A close up picture of an ant; drawn based on a picture from a science magazine.

Drawing is the oldest form of art; a way of expressing thoughts and ideas. Even since the stone age, humans had been known to draw on the cave wall. At that particular time, their subject of art is limited only to the things they encountered in daily life, such as hunting and rituals.

 Prehistoric painting found in a cave in France

 depicting bulls

Ancient Egyptian drawings depicting jewelers at work.

It is interesting to note that the ancient Egyptians used special pigments derived from the soil as colours to their artwork. They were said to have contributed in inventing the sea-blue colour.

I love to draw. I will draw whenever I have a free time. I created this blog to share my passion and knowledge in drawing, especially sketching. :)